System and method for integrating spreadsheets and word processing tables

An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents, The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the table when being edited. Underlying t...

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Main Authors WOLF, RICHARD, J, ANANTHARAMAN, VINOD, FRANKLIN, CHRISTOPHER, M, KOTLER, MATTHEW, J, GOUNARES, ALEXANDER, G, FISHER, OLIVER G, MORGAN, MATTHEW, D
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 13.08.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents, The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the table when being edited. Underlying the table UI, the architecture separates data handling functions form presentation functions. The architecture includes a table appearance manager to manage how the table a appears in a document including such characteristics as table resizing, selection, cut, copy, paste, split, merge, table formatting and so on. The architecture also has a spreadsheet functionality manager to manage the spreadsheet functions for the table, such as recalculation, formula handling, sorting, referencing, and the like.; The bifurcated architecture supports cross-table referencing, reference editing, automatic universal recalculation throughout all tables in the document, and nested table structures in which one table is nested wihtin a cell of another table.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20120152133